Subject: how to use local printer

From: "William B. Silverman M.D." <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 23:34:36 -0500 (EST)

Please explain how to printer a Pine message from my Macintosh screen
to the Mac printer attached to th CPU. I have been  (unfortunately) unable
to find the answer to this locally.

Again, thank you for your help.

Dr. Bill Silverman

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From: Mike Brudenell <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1997 09:31:01 +0000 (GMT)

To print to a printer locally attached to a Macintosh (or any other
micro)...

1.  Start Pine and go to its Main Menu screen.
2.  Type "S" then "P" to get to the Setup Printer screen.
3.  Read through information.
4.  Select either "attached-to-ansi" or "attached-to-ansi-no-formfeed"
5.  Exit Setup Printer screen, saving change.
6.  Try printing a message out.

Do note that this mechanism works by the mainframe (UNIX?) system sending
some special "start printing" and "stop printing" character sequences to
your Mac's terminal program before and after the message text itself.

If the terminal emulator program you are using on your Mac recognises and
supports these "start/stop printing" sequences then it should pop-up the
usual print dialog box, ready to leap into action.

However if the sequences aren't recognised or supported by your terminal
program then it won't work.  You will either need to go back to however
you've printed up until now, or use a different (version of your) terminal
software.

One of the most commonly used terminal programs for people with Ethernet
connections is NCSA Telnet.  The latest (and last) version of this is
2.7b{4,5} (effectively the same if I recall correctly, but the b5 release
brought out the source code).  This definitely *des* support printing in
this way.

If you aren't using NCSA Telnet then either consult your local Help Desk
or try posting again here.  Either way you should provide information
about the name and version number of the terminal software you are
currently using.

Cheers,

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Mike Brudenell                                         <[email-masked]>
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